I should know this, but sadly do not. What is PCC? My old man is a huge antique/flea market-aholic. He's captain E-bay. You'd think that world would rub off, but sadly it did not. Oh the clocks and radios I could show you in his home.

He sold a vintage juke box to someone in Australia. Shipping on something that size was $600+

PCC is Pasadena City College. There's a flea market there on the first Sunday of every month. It takes up three floors of one of the parking buildings, and spills out to the outdoor parking lot. There's a $2 parking fee, but otherwise it's free. I generally go looking for old photos, but I pick up some other stuff too.

I don't think I agree that PCC is better than the Rose Bowl Flea market. It's just different. If you're looking for antique furniture, there's more at the Rose Bowl. PCC has a lot of stuff indoors, which is nice on a cold or rainy or very hot day. And they have lots of little things there. They're both fantastic markets, really. We're lucky to have the two of them in the San Gabriel Valley.

Yeah, Rose Bowl as in the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, home of the Tournament of Roses football game, starting point (I think) of the Rose parade. The one time I was there my impression was that there was too much new stuff, and big things. I like small things I can afford.

TR, I'll friend you and share his info in a private message. I don't know for sure, but he might not like his stuff being shared openly on the web (I'm probably being overly cautious but what the heck?)

Aww gee shucks. You guys are too sweet.Weirdly the blog came back all by itself (with no explanation) after two and a half days on the run.I'm backing everything up now (really laborious) in case it does another runner.

Yikes, Vanda! I'm way past any mid-life crisis and so don't feel the need to pull a teenage girl (in the Brit sense) and no longer have the energy to pull one in the sense that you mean (we call that "throwing a paddy" or "throwing a strop" and it takes more motivation than I have right now).Hopefully, this fiasco will give me the kick up the backside necessary to start regularly blogging again.